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Instrumentation and Measurement (I&M): GIMI and GEMINI Design Topics at GEC15

Tuesday, October 23, 8:30am - 10am
Room:
Session leader: Harry Mussman (GENI Project Office, Raytheon BBN Technologies)

Description

This I&M session will review progress towards a comprehensive set of I&M tools for GENI experimenters and for infrastructure measurement.

It will focus on the two large Solicitation 3 I&M D&P projects, GIMI and GEMINI, starting with a review their design goals for Spiral 5 and current status.

Next, we will review the current status of outstanding I&M design topics, and the operational I&M services that are being introduced by the GIMI and GEMINI projects. We will consider how GIMI might be able to use the GEMINI services, and vice-versa.

Finally, we will discuss the I&M goals for the next 4 months, particularly how to best support experimenters and those doing infrastructure measurement.

Summary

  • GIMI I&M tool set design
    • Based on OML, provides basic host and active network measurements
    • Ready for use on ExoGENI racks; successful tutorial
    • Introduces XML messaging service, iRODS archive service, IREEL(lab wiki) portal service; use by others? iRODS by GEMINI
    • Spiral 5 goals: also work with InstaGENI racks, WiMAX sites
  • GEMINI I&M tool set design
    • Based on INSTOOLS and perfSONAR/LAMP, provides basic host and active network measurements
    • Ready for use on InstaGENI/protoGENI racks ; successful tutorial
    • Introduces portal to GUIs service, UNIS unified ntwk info service; use by others?
    • Spiral 5 goals: also work with ExoGENI racks
  • Need simplified MDOD measurement data object descriptor schema
    • Also service for creation and editing of MDOD
    • Possible extensions to other GENI objects, events

slides

Agenda

This is a tentative agenda, which may change.

1) Introductions

8:30am

2) Goals for this meeting

8:35am

Harry Mussman (GPO)

Goals

  • Review the progress of the GIMI and GEMINI I&M projects towards providing a comprehensive set of I&M tools for GENI experimenters and for infrastructure measurement.
  • Review the current status of outstanding I&M design topics.
  • Review five persistent multi-user I&M services that are being introduced by the GIMI and GEMINI projects, to see which can be used by both projects and/or by other parts of GENI.
  • Discuss the I&M goals for the next 4 months, particularly how to best support experimenters and those doing infrastructure measurement.

3) Summary of GIMI design goals for Spiral 5, and current status

8:40am
PI Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (mailto:zink@ecs.umass.edu)
Co-PI Max Ott, NICTA (mailto:max.ott@nicta.com.au)
Key personnel Ilia Baldine, RENCI (mailto:ibaldin@renci.org)

GIMI wiki
GIMI website at UMass Amherst

Goals

  • Starts with OML, and provides easy-to-use tools for GENI environment
  • First focus: I&M use cases for experiments, with default OML Client in nodes that gathers passive measurements like INSTOOLS, and provides basic node-to-node connectivity tests using ping and iperf
  • Second focus: I&M use cases for infrastructure measurement
  • Later focus: add sensor measurement data, carried in data network
  • Spiral 4 supported aggregates: ORCA servers/VMs and ExoGENI (RENCI) racks
  • Later, support: WiMAX sites
  • Spiral 5 supported aggregates: protoGENI/Emulab servers/VMs and InstaGENI (HP) racks
  • Introduces XML messaging service, with pub/sub, in public IP space
  • Introduces iRODS service, as a measurement data archive.
  • Introduces IREEL portal service, for measurement data analysys and presentation.

Summary:

4) Summary of GEMINI design goals for Spiral 5, and current status

8:50am
PI Martin Swany, Indiana University (mailto:swany@iu.edu)
Co-PI Chris Small, Indiana University (mailto:chsmall@indiana.edu)
Co-PI James Griffioen, University of Kentucky (mailto:griff@netlab.uky.edu)
Co-PI Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky (mailto:fei@netlab.uky.edu)

GEMINI wiki

Goals

  • Includes LAMP code and features in GEMINI tools, to provides flexible tools based on perfSONAR for active infrastructure measurements
  • Includes INSTOOLS code and features in GEMINI tools, to gather basic host measurements
  • Later, integrates LAMP and INSTOOLS code and features into new code base for GEMINI tools.
  • First focus: I&M use cases for infrastructure measurement
  • Include sharing of data with other users (e.g., operators), at an interface with authorization using a GENI credential
  • Show how to monitor clusters/racks
  • Show how to measure Layer 2 and OpenFlow paths (with input from OnTimeMeasure project)
  • Second focus: I&M use cases for experiments
  • Gather basic host measurements (as was done by INSTOOLS using SNMP)
  • Show how to gather customized data from applications (as provided by OML Client)
  • Spiral 4 supported aggregates: protoGENI/Emulab servers/VMs and InstaGENI (HP) racks
  • Spiral 5 supported aggregates: ORCA servers/VMs and ExoGENI (RENCI) racks
  • Continues INSTOOLS portal service, to find GUIs
  • Continues LAMP local and global Unified Network Information Service (UNIS), to register available measurement data, and network topology

Summary

5) Reports on I&M design topics

9:00am

T5) Descriptors, Objects and Registries

9:00am

Harry Mussman (GPO) and Giridhar Manepalli (CNRI)

6) Reports on persistent multi-user I&M services, being introduced by GIMI and GEMINI projects

9:15am

Goals

  • Use by both GIMI and GEMINI tools sets
  • Use by other parts of GENI
  • Identify need for further reviews and discussions, in breakout meetings on Wed, 7/11

S1) XML Messaging Service

S2) iRODS Service

9:15am

Shu Huang (RENCI)

Tasks

  • Establish iRODS service(s), and define rules (interfaces) to provide GENI measurement data archive functions.

Summary

Discussion

  • Who is lead?
  • Will all iRODS services be federated, for redundancy?
  • How to move data to service: move file; move SQL DB; or?
  • How is persistent object identifier (i.e., handle) generated? also registered? and later resolved? Include necessary Object Identifier (OI) service.
  • How are partitions for different users managed?
  • How is authorization for a user done?
  • How is data in MDOD used to set archive sharing policy? what is required in MDOD?
  • How will the GEMINI project use the iRODS service?
  • Will other parts of GENI want to use the iRODS service?
  • Do we need a breakout session for further discussion? when?

S3) GIMI Portal Service

9:30am

Max Ott and Christoph Dwertmann (NICTA); Mike Zink and Cong Wang (UMass Amherst)

Tasks

  • Establish IREEL service, to provide measurement analysis and presentation functions, starting with GIMI project
  • Extend/change to become Lab wiki service

Summary

  • IREEL service has been established at NICTA
  • IREEL service has been established at UMassAmherst
  • Current configuration [ slides]
  • Proposed configuration [ slides]
  • Operations plan [ slides]

Discussion

  • Who is lead?
  • How are partitions for different users managed?
  • How is authorization for a user done?
  • Can IREEL be used to provide other functions, e.g., experiment meangement? if so, how?
  • Will the GEMINI project want to use the IREEL service?
  • Will other parts of GENI want to use the IREEL service?
  • Do we need a breakout session for further discussion? when?

S4) GEMINI portal-to-GUIs Service

9:40am

Charles Carpenter (U Kentucky)

Tasks:

  • Continue INSTOOLS portal-to-GUIs service, to allow user to locate GUIs within their slice, for use with INSTOOLS and GEMINI tools

Summary

Discussion

  • Who is lead?
  • How are partitions for different users managed?
  • How is authorization for a user done?
  • What additional features are under consideration?
  • Will the GIMI project want to use the INSTOOLS portal-to-GUIs service?
  • Will other parts of GENI want to use the INSTOOLS portal-to-GUIs service?
  • Do we need a breakout session for further discussion? when?

S5) UNIS Service

9:45am

Ahmed El-Hassany (IU)

Tasks

  • Continue Unified Network Information Service (UNIS), to provide combined Lookup and Topology Services, initially for use with GEMINI tool set.

Summary

Discussion

  • Who is lead?
  • Will you refactor UNIS (combined Lookup and Topology Services) to support hierarchical operation with local and global instances?
  • What additional features are under consideration?
  • What new interfaces are under consideration?
  • Will the GIMI project want to use the UNIS service?
  • Will other parts of GENI want to use the UNIS service, e.g., stitching?
  • Do we need a breakout session for further discussion? when?

7) Goals for the next 4 months

9:55am

Harry Mussman (GPO)

Goals

  • Both GIMI and GEMINI tools should be available to Users during this period
    • Acceptance testing continued by the GPO (Jeanne Ohren)
    • Bug tracking system, plus periodic bug fixes, continued (who are leads?)
    • How can we facilitate feedback from Users, after EVERY use?
  • Both GIMI and GEMINI must provide a high level of support to Users
    • Tutorials must be kept up-to-date and operational, so that Users can teach themselves. (who are leads?)
    • Instructions must be continuously refined, to make the tools easier to use. (who are leads?)
    • Requested tool extensions must be gathered from users, based upon their experience. (who are leads?)
    • Users with advanced requirements must be found, better identify gaps in the tools. How? (who are leads?)
    • Tool extensions must be proposed by the teams, and reviewed with the users. How? (who are leads?)
    • A list of tool extensions needs to be developed for inclusion into v1.1, due at GEC15. (who are leads?)
  • Persistent multi-user services must be reliably available to all Users
    • User Worksapce (Jeanne Ohren)
    • XML messaging service (who is lead?)
    • iRODS archive service (who is lead?)
    • IREEL analysis and presentation service (who is lead?)
    • INSTOOLS portal-to-GUIs service (who is lead?)
    • Unified Network Information Service (UNIS) (who is lead?)

Discussion

  • Do we have leads identified for all items?

8) Adjourn

10:00am

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